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This free eBook is full of tips and tricks you’ll benefit from for years to come!
Did you know you can add your own keyboard shortcuts on the iPad or iPhone? How about some faster ways to reject suggested auto-corrections as you type, or write contractions, or a single-tap method to magnify and select text? This free eBook from Michele Ballard is jammed full of handy, cool techniques like these.
I recently downloaded this book from the iBooks Store and was so impressed by the first few tips alone that I knew I had to share it here. Most of these tips will work on the iPad too. Tips are organized into sections like “Keyboard and Writing Tips”, “Mail and Calendar”, and so on.
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Here’s a few more tips to whet your appetite for this fabulous freebie:
- Format text in e-mails: You can bold, underline, or italicize text in emails by highlighting a section of text and then clicking the right arrow in the menu that pops up, where you will then see a “B I U” option.
- Mark an email as Unread: This can help you remember to go back to an email and follow up on it later. Click on Details and select the ‘Mark as Unread’ option that appears below (on the iPad, click the ‘Mark’ option, which will give the choice to Mark as Unread).
- Focus on a point when recording: If you tap on a point on the screen while recording, the camera will make that the focal point while recording. Try it!
Get this wonderfully useful free iBook here: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/154-brilliant-iphone-tips/id540225948?mt=8 [3].
Note that some of these techniques may only be available with more recent versions of iOS (like 5 and later), so if you are well out of date, some of these may not work on your device.
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Book Review – Teaching and Learning With The iPad by David Mahaley [4]
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Book Review – THE RULE OF 6: HOW TO TEACH WITH AN IPAD eBook by Jim Norwood [6]
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About Kelly Walsh [10]
Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer at The College of Westchester, in White Plains, NY, where he also teaches. In 2009, Walsh founded EmergingEdTech.com. As an education and instructional technology advocate, he frequently delivers presentations on a variety of related topics at schools and conferences across the U.S. Walsh is also an author, and online educator, regularly running Flipped Class Workshops [11] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [12]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [13] and have a listen!
[Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, or those of other writers, and not those of my employer. - K. Walsh]